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Vehicle Tracking System and Minimization of Dead Mileage

Guruprasad Nagaraj, Dr. Y.S. Kumaraswamy

Abstract


Vehicle Tracking System or Automatic Vehicle Location System (AVL) is now one of the most popular technological changes in all over the world that is going to make our personal and business life lot easier. As the term suggests, it enables one to track or monitor the location of vehicle in instant time. Primarily, the system functions with the help of different technologies like the Global Positioning System (GPS), traditional cellular network such as Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) and other radio frequency medium. But GPS is more effective and accurate in this field. This paper proposes an enhanced tracking system to track buses and dynamic calculation of the bus arrival time, considering the effect of traffic on the delay of arrival time using a prediction based model, also reducing the effect of dead mileage on the transportation system using Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). Speed of bus is used to calculate the arrival time dynamically and in turn controls the frequency of bus service.

Keywords


Dead Mileage, Global Positioning System (GPS), Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), In-Vehicle Unit (IVU)

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